DIY Macrame Wall Hanging

DIY Macrame Wall Hanging

This is a step-by-step guide on how we created this DIY Macrame Wall Hanging for our dining room.

I had seen these all over YouTube and Instagram and fell in love with the design and technique.

When I searched online and saw the cost I couldn’t believe how expensive these were, in come’s (I can make this) moreover my kids would love to make this with me.

Macrame has made a total comeback and is more modern now appealing to a broader range of people,

This isn’t your grandmother’s macrame table covers or plant hangings. You can customize these to your taste and colour palette in your home, and that is precisely what we did.

Most of the materials below you can find at your local dollar store, or hardware store if you don’t have them on hand already.

List of Materials:

• Piece of Pine Wood (1 x 2 or 3inch thick)
• Wood stain
• Macrame Yarn (4 bundles of 4mm)
• Rit Fabric Dye
• Staple gun
• Fabric Scissors
• Garbage Bags 
• Painters Tape 
• Buckets for mixing dye
• Sponges
• Picture Frame Hooks

Step 1: Gather all materials

Gather all the materials listed above and have them ready to go.

Step 2: Cut Wood and Stain it

I got the lovely employees at Home Depot to pre-cut the wood for me 1 X 2 inch Pine.

I had a dark wood stain on hand from another project so I just used that instead of purchasing a new colour.

Which I also purchased at Home Depot. I did about two coats of the stain and let it dry for about 48 hours.

Step 3: Measure Yarn and Attach to Wood

I then laid out and filled the board with the yarn and started nailing the yarn pieces to the board with the nail gun,

I would double loop it at the top bring it back to the bottom and work all the way across the board, I left about 4 to 5 inches on each side of the board.

Step 4: Tape out the colour block patterns

We decided to tape out the colour patterns to give us a guide on which colours we wanted in which sections.

The kids loved this part because they picked the colour pattern and where they wanted them.

We then dipped a test piece of the yarn for each colour so we knew how much dye to use to get the desired colour. You can see how we placed them in the photo below.

Step 5: Start Dying the yarn

We used sponges to dye the yarn, I found this way easier for us mainly because the kids were helping with this project.

I have seen other methods of putting elastic bands around and dying each section that way. I didn’t want the dye to run too much into the other sections, and I could control how each strand was coloured easier this way.

Step 6: Let it Dry

We let this dry for about 2 days, It took a while and I wanted to make sure it was fully dry before we cut the ends and hung it on the wall,

We have beige walls and didn’t want any runoff dye on the walls. We hung it over our bar stools and put garbage bags with paper towels underneath to catch any drips.

Step 7: Cut the Ends

We cut the ends to your desired length, making sure the strains are as even as possible.

Make sure you hang this over something while you are cutting, you can even wait until you hang it on the wall before you cut it.

You definitely want to use fabric scissors for this as it’s pretty thick yarn.

Step 9: Add Picture Frame Hooks

We added two picture frame hooks to the back of the board on each end, to attach to the wall.

You can clearly see them in the photo below, I put them a little too high, so just make sure you check before you nail them in how they will sit on the wall so they are not visible like mine lol.

That’s it, thanks for checking out this DIY macrame wall hanging project. This was such a fun project for my little ones. So easy to do and what a beautiful piece they made.

Make sure you get a level when you are hanging this on the wall and 4 hands are better than two, so if you can get someone to help you hang it, do that.

Have fun picking out the colours you want to use, we have a lot of these colours throughout our main floor so this piece flows really nicely with our design style.

You could either pull the colours you have from around your house or go more neutral so if you want to change out your colours, your piece will stand the test of time and still look fantastic with any colour scheme. Enjoy!